Privacy Policy

Information you provide

• Account details: your username, email address, and a securely hashed password.
• Profile information you choose to add, such as a display name, picture and bio.
• Content you create: posts, photos, videos, captions, comments, messages, community activity, and marketplace listings.
• Payments: in the marketplace you pay each seller directly (M-Pesa, till or bank), so we do not handle that money. For promotions, event tickets and donations you pay by M-Pesa; we keep the payment record (amount, phone number and M-Pesa receipt) and never see your M-Pesa PIN.

Information collected automatically

• Basic usage and device information needed to run the app reliably (for example, app version and general activity such as views or plays).
• A push-notification token, if you enable notifications, so we can deliver them.

How we use your information

• To provide core features — your feed, music, communities, messaging, live events and the marketplace.
• To operate accounts, keep the service secure, prevent abuse, and enforce our Terms and Community Guidelines.
• To send you notifications you have opted into, and important account or service messages.

How your information is shared

• With other users: content you post is shown according to your settings (for example, a public profile is visible to anyone; a private profile is limited to approved followers).
• With service providers who process data on our behalf — our servers (Hetzner, in Germany), media storage and delivery (Cloudflare R2), M-Pesa payments (Safaricom), email delivery (Brevo) and push notifications (Expo, Google and Apple) — only as needed to run the app.
• For legal reasons, if required by law or to protect the rights, safety and security of our users and the service.
• We do not sell your personal information.

Your choices and rights

• Edit or delete your posts and comments at any time.
• Make your account private, and block accounts you do not want to interact with.
• Control which notifications you receive in Settings.
• Deactivate or permanently delete your account from Settings → Session. Deleting removes your account and associated content, subject to limited retention below.
• Ask us for a copy of your information, to correct it, or to stop a use you object to: email us, and we answer within the time your local law sets.

Where your information is kept

Our servers are in Germany and our media is stored with Cloudflare, so your information leaves your country. We send it only to providers that protect it as the data-protection law of your country requires (for Kenya, the transfer rules of the Data Protection Act, 2019).

Where we operate and your rights there

• Adventist Life is built for and first offered in Kenya, and will open in more African countries. It is offered today in Kenya.
• Kenya: we handle your information under the Data Protection Act, 2019. You have the right to be told how your data is used, to see it, correct it, have it deleted, and object to its use. If you are unhappy with how we handled a request, you can complain to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) (https://www.odpc.go.ke).
• As we open in a new country, its data-protection law is added here, and you are told in the app.

Data retention

We keep your information while your account is active. When you delete your account we remove your content and personal data, except where we must retain limited records to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or prevent abuse.

Children's privacy

• Kenya: anyone under 18 may use the app only with the consent of a parent or guardian, as the Data Protection Act, 2019 requires.
• Single & Searching is for adults (18 and over) only. If you believe a child is using the app without that consent, contact us and we will remove their information.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your information (including hashed passwords and encrypted connections). No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will revise the "last updated" date above and, for significant changes, provide additional notice in the app.

Contact us

Questions about privacy? Email adventistlight145@gmail.com.